children, and they answer him. He decides to erect a new palace, but the midwife takes the children's bones and buries them in the yard. Three cypress trees sprout. The midwife orders the trees to be felled down. Three flowers sprout and the queen sends her pet goat to eat them. The goat gets pregnant and the queen wants it killed. After her order is carried out, a slave girl washes its entrails in the river and the children reappear in human form. Distribution Analysing some of the available variants of tale type 707 during his lifetime, Romanian folklorist Lazar Saineanu suggested that the killing of the twin children and their rebirth in a cycle of metamorphoses seemed "typical" to Eastern Europe: in Romenia; Belarus; in Serbia; in the Bukovina region; in Croatia; Bosnia, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and among the Transylvanian Saxons. Hungarian scholar Ágnes Kovács stated that this was the "Eastern European subtype" of the tale Cei doi fraţi cu păr de aur ("The Twin Brothers With Golden Hair"), found "all across the Romanian language territories", as well in Hungarian speaking regions. In addition, Ákos Dömötor, in the 1988 revised edition of Hungarian Folktale Catalogue, noted its presence across the countries bordering Hungary and in Southeastern Europe. Professor Reginetta Haboucha remarked that the reincarnation cycle of these variants (human - tree - sheep - human) constitutes a new type she identified as **707B, "Truth Comes to Light" - a combination between type 707 and "essential elements" from type AT 780A, "The Cannibalistic Brothers". Development Russian scholar T. V. Zueva names this format "Reincarnation of the Luminous Twins" and considers this group of variants as "an ancient Slavic plot", since these tales have been collected from Slavic-speaking areas. Another argument she raises is that the tree transformation in most variants is the sycamore, a tree with mythical properties in East Slavic folklore. She also argues that this format is the "archaic version" of the tale type, since it shows the motif of the tree and animal transformation, and recalls ancient ideas of twin beings in folklore. Variants Romania Writer and folklorist Cristea Sandu Timoc considered that these tales were typically Romanian, and belonged to tale type AaTh 707C*. He also reported that "more than 70 variants" of this subtype were "known" (as of 1988). A version of the tale, collected in the Wallachia region, from a